How to make a DIV's height 100%?

Hi

I'm using CSS Sculptor for the first time. I'm using one of the layouts included i.e a 3 Column layout with fixed header and footer. I've made the footer stick to the bottom of the browser.

Here's my problem. The center column holds the main content, I want this div to fit exactly all the way down until it hits the sticky footer. How do I do that?

I've attached a screen grab. You will see the center DIV colored in Brown, notice how it sits way up the page. I need it to fit vertically until it meets the Footer.

Any help would be much appreciated.

The easiest way is to give the appearance of 100% height by giving the page a background image - centered, repeat-y. (Faux columns).

Once you have decided finally on your left and right column and content area widths, create an image same width as content wrapper, and about 20px in height, and colour the column areas as you want them to appear in your page.(add borders, effects as required) i.e:

faux/

Sorry about the colour scheme!

Edit note: To use this method, you would need to remove the existing background colours from your outerwrapper and its contained elements.

Alternatively, you could make the outerWrapper, contentWrapper and content divs 100% height, and set the property of contentWrapper overflow from 'hidden' to 'visible'(for editing in DW design view).
index2.html

Thanks, works perfectly now!

Cheers

Hi again,

I'm actually having a problem when viewing this page in IE surprise surprise, If you view the following page in IE7 you will see that the right hand column is being cut off by the footer. Any ideas on how to fix this in IE? It works great in Firefox and Safari.

test.htm

Thanks

When you crafted your layout in Sculptor did you check the box for equal length columns in the interface? This option in the interface is there to help with the situations like this. If you have this option enabled before you generate the page it should account for the columns in the layout and apply the technique that will make them equal. You can always go to the CSS Sculptor interface and it should have the preset you were last working on.

Hi,

I did choose the option for the box for equal length columns in the interface. Have I missed something else?

I managed to find a workaround by adding a bottom margin to the right hand column. Would you have a better workaround?

Thanks

Hi Keith,

You can force the div (content2) to properly 'contain' all of it's contents, with a snippet of code, immediately before the closing div tag for that div. The code is:

<br style="clear:both; height:0; font-size: 1px;line-height: 0px" />

and you should put it in your page code here:

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      <br style="clear:both; height:0; font-size: 1px;line-height: 0px" />
</div>

You would then just need to click 'return' after the last word in your right column, to make things fine in IE.

Might be worth a try on your page, if not, it's a useful bit of code to keep handy whenever you need a div to 'contain' its contents properly!

Hi neilo,

This is a great snippet indeed, thank you very much for sharing!

Regards